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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Scott Damrauer of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on a study that found women who get significantly shorter during middle age could be more at risk for death. “I think that the most likely explanation is that there is an underlying process that is leading to women losing height that is also contributing to an increased risk of death in those same women,” he said.
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Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences and a colleague wrote about U.S. mortality rates, which are significantly higher than those in Europe. “We would argue that a lack of federal oversight and regulation, powerful lobbying structure, deindustrialization of American jobs, and systemic racism combine to create an annual tsunami of excess deaths,” they said.
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Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about rising mortality rates in the U.S. over the last two decades. Preston and his colleagues attribute the shift in part to this country’s lack of a universal health care system.
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Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences said postcards are an insufficient way of confirming voter addresses. “It highlights the challenges in doing [voter roll] maintenance when people have unstable addresses,” he said.
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Americus Reed II of the Wharton School said recent changes to racist brand imagery can be attributed to the pandemic and our current political climate. “In normal times, you don’t have the heightened consumer awareness that’s been triggered by COVID and George Floyd,” he said.
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Howard Neukrug of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the rising cost of water in the U.S. “High-cost low-quality water is a national issue. The federal government is clearly not playing the role it needs to play,” he said.
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Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about his research on feathered dinosaurs. “The one major thing that is different about Dineobellator is that at the base of the tail, the vertebrae are set up differently so it makes the tail highly mobile at the base,” he said.
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Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice said those who received experimental basic income stipends spent 40% of the funds on food, highlighting the degree of food insecurity Americans have lived with since the 2008 recession.
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Shu Yang and colleagues from the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new glue from hydrogel, inspired by snail slime. “The mucus [snails] produce is a viscous liquid, but when it dries they become firmly stuck,” said Yang.
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Frances E. Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about her research on the teenage brain and the benefits of parental empathy. “Teens will react more readily than an adult,” said Jensen. “If the reaction is anger it will come faster in a teenager and an act based on the anger could come faster too. They need to know they may trigger too quickly. But this is also why I say adults should give them what I call a ‘frontal lobe assist’.”